Harbouring pro-Hamas hellions, Harvard has regrets

Kurt Mahlburg

October 13, 2023 2 Reactions

In the 400-word statement released by Harvard’s leadership, however, not a whisper was made about the school’s Hamas-sympathising hellions.

It took another 24 hours of public ridicule for Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, to release an additional statement that directly confronted the issue.

“Let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” she wrote, adding, “while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership”.

While Ms Gay is strictly correct in stating that student groups don’t speak for Harvard, they certainly do speak to the university’s culture.

Harvard has been sliding ever leftward for decades, seen most notably in recent times in its taking out top place as the worst school for free speech in America. Among the shrinking cohort of students who feel unhindered to speak their mind, apparently, are Harvard’s Hamas terrorist allies.

Does it get any more leftwing than that?

Finally, belatedly, Harvard’s antisemitic students are also harbouring some regrets, of the “I regret I got caught” variety.

The New York Post now reports that many who first supported the letter are scrambling to take back their support of it:

A flurry of Harvard University students and groups are desperately trying to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel for the mass slaughter of its own people by Hamas terrorists — as some business titans seek to blacklist them from future jobs.

Four of the initial 34 student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement have already withdrawn their support — while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.

Call me cynical, but it all seems a little too convenient; a classic case of too little, too late.

As commonsense commentator Konstantin Kisin has put it, “If there is any good at all that has come out of the last week — and there is almost none because what we have seen has been pure evil — it’s that a lot of people’s eyes are now well and truly open.”

For those looking at Harvard University with eyes wide open, it is an ugly sight indeed.   

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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